diff --git a/docker-compose-mysql.yml b/docker-compose-mysql.yml
index 4617eaaf0e2..13f4c99236c 100644
--- a/docker-compose-mysql.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-mysql.yml
@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ x-mysql-env: &mysql-env
   DATABASE_USER: superset
   DATABASE_PASSWORD: superset
   SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI: "mysql+mysqldb://superset:superset@db:3306/superset?charset=utf8mb4&binary_prefix=true"
+  # Override the analytics-examples DB connection too. ``EXAMPLES_PORT``
+  # in docker/.env is hardcoded to 5432 (the Postgres port); without
+  # this override the examples connection would try MySQL on 5432 and
+  # fail. The examples user/DB are created by docker/mysql-init/
+  # examples-init.sql on first MySQL boot.
+  EXAMPLES_HOST: db
+  EXAMPLES_PORT: "3306"
+  EXAMPLES_DB: examples
+  EXAMPLES_USER: examples
+  EXAMPLES_PASSWORD: examples
+  SUPERSET__SQLALCHEMY_EXAMPLES_URI: "mysql+mysqldb://examples:examples@db:3306/examples?charset=utf8mb4&binary_prefix=true"
 
 services:
   db:
@@ -57,10 +68,23 @@ services:
       MYSQL_USER: superset
       MYSQL_PASSWORD: superset
       MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
+    # The original 5432 port mapping is harmless on a MySQL container
+    # (nothing listens on 5432 inside it) but we add 13306->3306 so the
+    # MySQL port is reachable from the host without colliding with a
+    # native MySQL on 3306. Compose merges port lists.
     ports:
       - "127.0.0.1:${DATABASE_PORT_MYSQL:-13306}:3306"
+    # Override the init-scripts mount by re-binding the same target path
+    # to a MySQL-compatible directory. Compose merges volume lists by
+    # target path; later definitions win on conflict, so this displaces
+    # the Postgres-specific ``./docker/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d`` mount
+    # from docker-compose.yml. Without this, MySQL would try to run
+    # ``cypress-init.sh`` (which invokes ``psql``, not in the MySQL
+    # image), abort the init phase, and never create the ``examples``
+    # database. Add the MySQL data volume separately.
     volumes:
       - db_home_mysql:/var/lib/mysql
+      - ./docker/mysql-init:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
     command:
       - --default-authentication-plugin=caching_sha2_password
       - --character-set-server=utf8mb4
diff --git a/docker/mysql-init/examples-init.sql b/docker/mysql-init/examples-init.sql
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..68dabe38671
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/mysql-init/examples-init.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+-- or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+-- distributed with this work for additional information
+-- regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+-- to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+-- "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+-- with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+--
+--   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+--
+-- Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+-- software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+-- "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+-- KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+-- specific language governing permissions and limitations
+-- under the License.
+
+-- MySQL counterpart to docker/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/examples-init.sh.
+-- Creates the analytics-examples database and user that Superset's
+-- ``load-examples`` command writes to. Mounted by docker-compose-mysql.yml
+-- at /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/ so the MySQL image's first-boot
+-- entrypoint runs it automatically. (The Postgres init scripts under
+-- docker/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/ are NOT mounted on the MySQL
+-- service — they invoke psql, which doesn't exist in the MySQL image.)
+
+CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS examples
+  CHARACTER SET utf8mb4
+  COLLATE utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;
+
+CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'examples'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'examples';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON examples.* TO 'examples'@'%';
+FLUSH PRIVILEGES;